March 11, 2016

Fisheries in Costa Rica

Landing sites

Objectives

  • Analyze the changes in landings of Snapper through time
  • Explore the relationship between prices and landings through time

Data Sources

  • Landings
  • Prices

Our Data

Annual Catch Data for Pargo and Pargo Seda in 4 Pacific Regions (1990-2013)

Results

Results

Landings through time

Results

Price through time

Results

Challenges

Informatics and Fisheries Management

Engaging the public

Interactive Examples

Sea Around Us

Ocean Health Index

The Pew Charitable Trusts - Importance of Predators

Shiny!

General problems we ALL face

  • It's a parenthesis… probably
  • You're missing a comma!
  • Should that be capitalized?
  • Check your working directory
  • Did you load the library?
  • Is your object the right class?
  • Are you using plyr? it's EVEL KNIEVEL